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As crypto markets face a reckoning in the wake of the FTX scandal, standard-setters and industry participants say identifiers for tokens are key for the industry’s stability. In the Book of Genesis, God created Adam. And one of Adam’s first actions was to name every animal. Whether you understand this story literally or as allegory,…
Now in its eighth year, Wall Street Rides FAR has raised more than $3 million for the Autism Science Foundation. The fundraiser was the brainchild of Harkins, a former Cboe Global Markets executive, and his wife Melissa Moo Harkins, sales director at crypto company Blockdaemon and founder of the women’s triathlon apparel brand MooMotion. Some of their own…
The trading platform has made three key appointments in sales and business development. Crypto trading platform Talos has announced three key hires for its global expansion, four months after it raised $105 million in a funding round. Talos is hiring Frank van Zegveld, who joins the firm as head of sales for the Europe, Middle…
Neal Pawar, Talos advisor, former CTO of AQR and current COO of Qontigo, chats with Anthony about some of the major trends that are changing how asset managers interact with the vendor community, and how this shift mirrors the most significant evolutions in capital markets technology over the last decade. Pawar was AQR Capital Management’s…
As the air hissed out of the crypto blimp this year, and one debacle after another left investors with portfolios resembling the Hindenburg, one could’ve imagined traditional financial institutions taking a victory lap. After all the hoopla, decentralized finance challengers weren’t looking like such superior alternatives, after all. But for the most part, that hasn’t…
The latest Institutional Investor Digital Assets Study by Fidelity Digital Assets included responses from Asian investors for the first time this past year, and found they were far more accepting of digital assets than their US and European counterparts. Of the 299 Asian institutional investors surveyed, 71% had adopted digital assets, with 9 in 10 indicating they were actively exploring opportunities. This compares to digital asset adoption among 56% of the European institutional investors surveyed and 33% of the US ones.